The poplar trees used for the Gobi, the desert, and the wind and sand protection look so thin, and the yellow sand is flying all over the sky, covering the sky, and hitting people's faces and causing pain.

In the wind and sand, a convoy is moving fast.

This is a special fleet of tracked vehicles, wheeled vehicles, armored vehicles, and off-road trucks, and the livery of the cars is also varied, there are army green, desert yellow, and even camouflage, each car is different.

One of the most unique is the eight-tire armored car, it is wide, but not very tall, and although it has eight tires, it can walk on the ground in difficult road conditions, even the tracked vehicles in the fleet cannot match.

Finally, after crossing a piece of the Gobi Desert, there is a flat desert in front of you.

"Okay, switch modes and sprint at full speed!" Inside the car, after Qin Feng looked at the map, he said excitedly: "Throw off the vehicles behind!" ”

"Understood!" Xing Fuqiang, who was driving, flicked the lever under the steering wheel and adjusted the Gobi mode to the desert mode, and in an instant, the car roared.

Boom, boom, boom!

The gears also began to switch.

Everything is automatic, because this car is equipped with an automatic transmission!

Over the past few years, the Pacific Group has been working military vehicles, starting with the Warrior Vehicle, and has been engaged in advanced power chains.

In terms of engines, the Pacific Group has obtained the technical authorization of the Mercedes-Benz OM series engine, which can fully produce advanced Mercedes-Benz engines, however, considering the advantages of air-cooled engines, it is still the Deutz air-cooled diesel engine used on this wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, with a maximum power of 335 kilowatts, that is, 500 horsepower.

Military vehicles need to fight in various places, some places may not be easy to add water, even if the cooling water is replaced with coolant, it may also be lost because of the bump, and it is inconvenient to replenish it at that time, so it is temporarily replaced by an air-cooled diesel engine, and if the army needs it, it can also be replaced with a Mercedes-Benz engine at any time.

In terms of transmission, after unremitting efforts, the AMT gearbox, which is improved on the basis of the manual nine-speed gearbox, has finally been created!

This gearbox is only on the basis of the manual transmission to add a set of shift components, it is not difficult to modify, the key is the program calibration, because from the Mengshi car began to test, in the past two years, the program has been continuously improved, and it has long been mature.

Moreover, depending on the road conditions, you can also choose different modes, desert, plain, mountain, etc.

Now, after switching modes, the engine shifts faster, faster and more fuel-efficient.

The big eight wheels produced by the Pacific Group rode the dust and began to sprint forward.

In the cars behind, everyone looked different.

On the six-wheeled WZ551 car, engineer Wang Pengfei pushed his glasses: "Hmph, they are purely wasteful, obviously it is only a twenty-ton big eight-wheeler, but a 500-horsepower engine is installed, and there is too much power, it is meaningless at all!" ”

If you want to run fast, the first thing you have to be powerful, in fact, their six-wheeled vehicle is not weak, it is installed with a Deutz eight-cylinder engine, with a power output of 320 horsepower, but compared with the big eight-wheeler, it is still a big difference.

So, now I see that even if I am in the desert area, I can drag rac, but I still can't drive them.

"They have eight wheels, and they have a lot of resistance to move forward, so we should be able to catch up with this car at full power." Zhao Jixiang, the test driver in charge of driving, said, stepping on the clutch to shift gears, wanting to speed up, but the moment the power was interrupted, the car began to slow down.

"Quick, throttle to the end!" Wang Pengfei urged.

The engine roared, the car chased forward, and even if they were slightly behind, they were still in second place.

On another big eight-wheeler, there was an angry voice.

"Quick, come on, come on! The big eight wheels of our Iron Horse Factory use Mercedes-Benz technology, and we must not lose to them! ”

This big eight-wheeled car was developed by the Iron Horse Factory, when Mercedes-Benz was high, unwilling to cooperate with the East, the Iron Horse Factory made great efforts to copy the Mercedes-Benz heavy truck to the surveying and mapping, but only built the chassis, and the engine could not always import Mercedes-Benz, fortunately, at that time, the country had begun to introduce the Deutz air-cooled engine, so they also installed the Deutz engine.

It's just that for Mercedes-Benz NG73 heavy trucks, a 188 kilowatt engine is enough, that is, 250 horsepower, and the Iron Horse Factory is most familiar with this power chain, but this is too weak after all.

Fortunately, they also tinkered with the 8*8 version of the "Iron Horse" XC2300 type, which was close to the water, and used the 11-liter engine of Shancheng Cummins Engine Co., Ltd., with a power of 355 horsepower, but, after all, it has eight tires, and now it is running at the rear!

Can't run the big eight rounds of the Pacific Group, can't run the six rounds of the brother unit, but ...... At the very least, it can leave the tracked vehicles behind.

Tracked vehicles are suitable for field action, after all, the vehicle is equivalent to walking on two iron plates that never end, no matter what the terrain, it can walk on the ground.

But at the same time, the track also leads to super frictional resistance, and the maximum speed of this kind of car is not too fast, generally forty or fifty kilometers per hour.

The Type 85 and Type 86 armored vehicles almost all fell behind for this reason. However, due to the different dynamics, the performance of the two at this time is also different.

The Type 85 armored car is an improvement on the basis of the Type 63 armored car, but it does not inherit the half-cut tank engine 6V150, but uses a 320 horsepower Deutz air-cooled engine, so the power is slightly more abundant.

The Type 86 armored car, as an imitation of a BMP infantry fighting vehicle, is also copied on the power chain, using 6V150, but the engine has been increased to 293 horsepower, in comparison, the gap is not particularly large, so the two vehicles are chasing me at this time, regardless of up and down.

At the end, there are the off-road trucks.

This kind of car was originally inferior to a combat vehicle, and now it was still full of cargo, so it was naturally the slowest to run, but they were not in a hurry, they were left behind, and they only had to follow the ruts in front of them, and they had to meet at a fixed location every day according to the original plan.

At this time, on a Mercedes-Benz heavy truck, Hua Guoqiang, the officer in charge of recording, was very emotional.

"Sure enough, the strength of the big eight wheels developed by the Pacific Group is the strongest. Driving on the Gobi, the off-road ability is no worse than that of a tracked vehicle, and entering the desert terrain is even more unbeatable. ”

"That's natural, the biggest advantage of that car is not that the engine is powerless, it's not eight tires, it's that it's low." Xiao Liu, the driver on the side, said: "So, when encountering bumpy roads, other cars need to slow down, for fear of overturning, but the big eight wheels of the Pacific Group are not afraid, no matter what terrain, dare to throttle to the end, just watched it cross the slope, I was afraid that it would overturn, but ...... People just don't care! ”

The car is low, the center of gravity is low, people who drive a sedan do not understand why the SUV is slow like a snail when entering the highway ramp, of course, because it is easy to turn over when it is fast, when there is no EPS system, Toyota Prado is called the king of rollover, it is not unreasonable.

Among all the vehicles participating in the bidding, the Pacific Group's big eight wheels are the lowest, twenty or thirty centimeters shorter than other vehicles, and this gap allows it to gain an absolute advantage!

"That's right, I heard that they have put a lot of effort into the design, in order to create the lowest shape, completely abandon the power chain of Mercedes-Benz heavy trucks, and use the side drive, don't look at the low shape, the space inside is not less than others...... However, I still have to admire Leader Li for proposing such a plan, and before he arrived at the national shooting range, the performance of these different vehicles was compared. ”

In the past, in order to allow the leaders of the capital to visit casually, the weapons bidding was carried out in the shooting range near the capital, especially after crossing the Badaling, and arriving at the tank base at the west gate of the capital, where it was most convenient to conduct tests.

But this time, Lee Yun-ju changed his mind and asked that the test site be placed at the national shooting range.

This is understandable, after all, all the ground weapons finalization tests are carried out at the national shooting range, and it is normal to go there for testing now.

However, Li Runzhu added a condition to it: all the armored vehicles participating in the bidding will gather in the western part of the coal province! Starting from the coal province, you will go directly to the most desolate place, where you can drive casually, and then drive all the way to the national shooting range in the northwest of the motherland!

After getting the news, I heard that some people were scolding their mother, thinking that this was deliberately embarrassing people, and some people were happy and thought it was their chance.

As for the Pacific Group, there was no reaction at all, but before departure, Mr. Qin suddenly appeared and got into their test car.

By the time the test began, the Pacific Group's big eight rounds were flawless and perfect!

At this time, on the front eight rounds, Qin Feng continued to look at the map, looking at the scheduled assembly place that needed to stop and wait tonight: Long Beach Village.

"Long Beach Village is next to the Yellow River, and when we get there tonight, we can not only cook on the fire, but also boil water to take a bath." Qin Feng said with satisfaction: "By the time we have taken a bath and slept comfortably, they should have arrived." ”

"Well, almost, at our speed, we can get there at least an hour early." Xing Fuqiang said: "Leader Li is too good to us, and deliberately proposed this plan, which is to let us stand out before officially entering the national shooting range, and then there is no need to compare." ”

Qin Feng smiled.

If you want to say that Li Runzhu was specially designed for them, it is definitely not, although they have a good relationship with Li Runzhu, but which other brother unit does not have this experience?

Li Runzhu did this, mainly inspired by the history of the T-34 bidding, when the bearded man only believed in the little white-faced Kotin, and the tanks that Kejing made up were all failures, so he naturally wanted to prevent others from performing, and under his obstruction, Koshkin's T-34 tank had no chance to show its face at all.

So, in desperation, Koshkin decided to drive the tank directly from Kharkov to Moscow, thousands of kilometers, and it was winter, and the tank did not drop the chain, and won the favor of the bearded, and Kotin could not hide it at all.

The T-34 was mass-produced, creating the famous T-34 crisis on the Western Front, without the T-34, Lao Maozi might not have been able to win World War II, and Koshkin was not in good health, he bumped along the way, and died not long after returning home.

Now, you will also come to such a long-distance off-road, which armored car is the best to use, and which armored car is paper-paste, you can see it straightforwardly.

Of course, the products of their Pacific Group have never disappointed the troops!

As soon as the sun slipped into the western sky, this camouflage-patterned eight-wheeled car appeared next to a small village on the edge of the Yellow River.

The surrounding area is still desert, but there are many trees around the village, and it is late autumn, and the trees have withered and yellowed, but you can imagine that in spring and summer, there is a lush scene everywhere.

I don't know why, Qin Feng's mind suddenly recalled the scene of the New Dragon Gate Inn, Maggie Cheung, Lin Qingxia...... When the film starts filming, will it come here to film? Acting in the desert, resting in this village after the performance.

The village is not big, the number of households is estimated to be no more than 100, at the entrance of the village, there are two children playing, when they see this car coming, their eyes immediately widen.

"Hey, what's that?"

"Hurry up and report to the village chief's uncle!"

By the time the armored car stopped at the entrance of the village, the village chief, Ma Yisifu, was already waiting there.

"Comrade of the People's Liberation Army, you ......" Ma Yisifu had not said anything like your hard work, but saw that the people who got out of the car were not wearing green military uniforms, but were all labor cloth work clothes, and he was very curious.

"Hello old man, we are from the factory." Qin Feng stepped forward to greet him: "We drove this car to a long-distance test, and there is a convoy behind, by the way, we want to set up a tent outside the village, and we also want to go to the river to fetch some water." ”

"Understood, you are from a military factory, testing equipment for the army, since you have come to our village, what kind of tent do you still live in, go, I will arrange for you to live in the village! Sha Lihai, go, tell your mother, vacate the best room in your house, and let us guests live! Ma Li, go, tell your dad to slaughter a sheep! ”

Qin Feng was a little confused.

These villagers are too welcoming, aren't they? Let's just stay here for one night temporarily, we don't need to make it so lively, let's bring dry food, just pick up some water, can we use roast whole sheep to greet us?

"Come, comrades, go, go into the village!"

"Old Sir, we ......"

"A few years ago, our village was flooded, the big guy's house was flooded, and the livestock were also flooded, and at the critical time, the People's Liberation Army arrived and rescued us from the roof, in fact, as long as we were rescued, we were grateful, but they saw that our cattle and sheep were still flooded, and ran to save the cattle and sheep, as a result, a PLA comrade ......"

When he said this, Ma Yisifu's eyes were moist.

"The People's Liberation Army is our relatives, although you are not the People's Liberation Army, you also produce equipment for the People's Liberation Army, how can your relatives live in tents when they come to our village!" Ma Yisifu said: "You have to live in our house!" How many more people are in the back? Even if we vacate all the houses, we will give them to the People's Liberation Army! ”

Qin Feng knew that today was no longer a prevarication.

It's useless to talk about the three disciplines and eight points of attention, after all, we are not soldiers. In that case......

"Director Xing, unload half of the supplies on our car, instant noodles, self-heating rice, etc., and give our villagers a taste."

The village is very dilapidated, all adobe houses, wooden beams can be seen on the wall, this is a traditional four-beam and eight-pillar structure handed down from the Ming and Qing dynasties, according to the different topography, the houses are scattered and distributed, looking with a quaint atmosphere.

The only modern house in the village is the brick house in the center of the village, which was owned by the Sha Lihai family in the village, and his father left the village to work outside, and was the richest man in the village.

Sha Lihai's mother very warmly invited Qin Feng and them to enter, and soon, the villagers all rushed over.

Listening to the weak voices of the sheep outside, Qin Feng hurriedly commanded Xing Fuqiang: "Old Xing, what are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and distribute instant noodles to our relatives, and each of us will send a bucket first!" ”

"No, no, we can't ask for your stuff!" Ma Yisifu hurriedly refused.

"Mr., you just said, we are a family, then don't talk about two families, this instant noodles are produced by our Pacific Group, and they are also our own things, and they taste very good, you can taste it, by the way, you have to boil a pot of boiling water first."

The volume of self-heating is too large to carry, so the main thing to bring is the bowl noodles, which need to boil water.

Soon, the water was boiling in the cauldron, and the villagers followed Qin Feng's example, poured the boiling water into the bowl, and forked the plastic skin with a fork, and soon, the aroma was overflowing.

"Mom, this thing is so delicious, I want to eat it!"

"What adults eat, children don't be greedy."

"It's okay, adults and children have a portion, one bowl per person." Qin Feng handed over the instant noodles in front of him: "Come, your name is Sha Lihai, right?" Come, eat mine. ”

"No, no, we've ......"

"It's okay, come on!" Qin Feng picked up the noodles with a fork and handed them to Sha Lihai's mouth, Sha Lihai looked at the fragrant noodles, drooled greedily, sucked them all, and sucked all the noodles into his mouth.

"Fragrant, so fragrant!"

Sha Lihai praised while continuing to eat, although it was a little hot, he still kept eating, and soon ate a bowl of noodles into his stomach, and there was no soup left in it.

Everyone else also started to eat it, and as soon as they took the first bite, their eyes widened, it was delicious, it was delicious!

"Sha Lihai's father works outside, so he should eat this food often."

"yes, what's out there is delicious."

Sha Lihai's mother looked at Qin Feng: "I'm sorry, the child ate you, you ......"

"I eat roast whole lamb with my stomach saved."

Seeing Qin Feng covering his stomach, everyone laughed.

Half an hour later, WZ551 drove to the entrance of the village, and Wang Pengfei just got out of the car when he smelled the fragrance floating in the air.

"Is this a roasted whole lamb?"

"It should be." Zhao Jixiang said: "Their Pacific Group is really rich, they must have used the money to buy the sheep in the village, let's ......."

"You and Uncle Qin Feng are together, right?" A little girl came out of the village: "Come in, let's eat roast whole sheep together." ”

"Yes."

Then, the third, the fourth......

By the time the tracked vehicle came, it was already dark.

It was a bumpy ride, and everyone felt like they were falling apart.

On the Type 85 armored car, Qian Wen walked down, stretched his muscles, and then said: "Next, maintain the vehicle, check the tracks, and don't drop the chain tomorrow!" ”

Tracked vehicles are troublesome, and they must be checked frequently, otherwise once the tracks are loose and fall off, or if they break tightly, they will leave a bad impression on the troops, and the bidding will be even more backward.

At this moment, suddenly, the cry of a child was heard in the village.